■ 



■I 



■ 






■ 



■ 






'■A/ ' ' 






— ■->-» >'. »-;jv^ V 




. 


















. 



Class PS 2> 5& 3 .. 

Book .E-847 S i 

Gopyii^htN |C ^° I 

— 
COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT. 



— I » 




















•••-■• ■ - - 

- ' 

- .. ->■-.'--. . 

. - 




• 



^ JT) 



OR a number of years 
"Stub Ends of Thought •» 
along with other good 
reading matter on places 
and things hearing most- 
ly on travel, have ap- 
peared regularly each month, in 
the Book of the Royal Blue, pub- 
lished by the Passenger Depart- 
ment of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- 
road, i 

They have been read in New 
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 
Washington, Richmond, Pittsburg, 
Wheeling, Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, 
Chicago and many other cities 
which are joined together by the 
splendid through train service of 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 

It is with pleasure we pre- 
sent this copy to you, introducing 
old friends in new clothes. 

C, W. BASSETT, 

General Passenger Agent, Baltimore. 
B.N.AUSTIN, 

General Passenger Agent, Chicago. 

D. B. MARTIN, 

Manager Passenger Traffic, Baltimore* 



Stub Ends 

of 

THOUGHT 
and VERSE 

Jlrthur G. Lewis. 



THE (BOHEMIAN SOCIETY. 

Norfolk. Va. 

Price $1.00, Postpaid. 






Copyright, 


1909, 


BY 




Arthur G. 


Lewis. 



sJ/ul 



.A252793 



THE only woman absolutely neces- 
sary to a man's happiness is the 
one who helps him in the realization 
of his ambition. 

Oh God of Grace, spare us the Gold- 
en Rule, when fate demands we tutor 
to a fool. 

It is far better sometimes that we 
should heal with lies than wound with 
truth. 

The composite parts of ideal love 
consist of about nine-tenths of unself- 
ishness and one-tenth of faith. 

Too many of us wear the bouquet of 
life until it fades, and then lay the dead 
flowers before the altar of Heaven. 

There is an abundance of gentility 
answering the call-bells of stolen pros- 
perity. 

Vanity out-lives every other emotion 
and kills in its life many more valuable 
traits of character. 
i 



Stub Ends of 



MANY mothers instruct their 
daughters to disregard apparent 
duties, and then breathe prayers in 
gilded churches asking God to stand 
between their advice and its result. 

Men can only make a position out of 
their job after ability has established 
them in it as a necessary fixture. 

There is no balm on earth, or in 
Heaven, for those who sigh and nurse 
their self-made wounds. 

Real refinement is the result of sev- 
eral generations of self-sacrifice laid 
upon the altar of integrity. 

"If consistency is a jewel," what 
a rare gem it must have become. 

Some of us lose in the possession of 
affection that which we most worked 
for in its anticipation. 

Stolen silks upon the polluted bodies 
of social parasites blush before the hon- 
est linen of good birth and earnest ef- 
fort. 

When one fool asks another fool's 
advice we are liable to hear of a twin 
disaster in ideas. 



Thought & Verse 

To nurse a mental wound does about 
as much good as to imitate a physical 
one. 

^» 10* %&& 

THAT LITTLE MOTHER OF 
OURS. 

That dear little unselfish mother of 
ours, 
No other her sweetness and virtue 
possess, 

The kisses she gave us in childhood's 
bright hours 
Still breathe benediction with every 
caress. 

She guided the way from our earliest 
care, 
While teaching the mystery of Hea- 
ven and prayer, 

And found in her love some faith-lead- 
ing way, 

Through nighttime and fear, to the 
dawning of day. 

In the hour of temptation her memory 
has been 
The one light that led through the 
highway of sin, 

3 



Stub Ends of 



And for things that we did, which had 
never been done, 
Had we not remembered that we 
were her son. 
To her be the honor, the love and the 
light, 
That fashioned our pathyway to ef- 
fort and right. 
God grant the pure laurels of glory she 
wears, . 
That dear little unselfish mother of 

ours. 

j$ & jft 

ANY fool can locate a fault, but it 
takes a man to recognize a 
virtue. 

Fear is the peg on which too many 
of us hang our tattered rags of faith. 

Perseverance is the greatest neces- 
sity in life's work and sincerity its 
noblest virtue. 

The fruit of thought will ripen only 
upon the bough of research and inves- 
tigation. 

Physical virtue is but the ethical 
condition which mental purity holds 
under control. 

4 



Thought & Verse 



Elevate your heels on the table of 
your work and think out things in your 
own way. 

It is but seldom that ignorance ap- 
preciates the efforts and good inten- 
tions of intelligence. 

Only from the sound brains of a 
sane people can come the answer to 
a questioning age. 

If we were all capable and informed, 
the man who knows he knows, would 
lose his job. 

We are too often governed in our 
opinions by the prejudiced mood of an 
impulsive moment. 

l£& t^* <(?* 

Y. O. U. 

Dearest, sweetest, gentlest, best — 
All that's noble, pure and true, 

Proven strong by every test, 
Greatest joy I ever knew — 

Y. O. U. 

Leading me through nights of pain, 
To the dawn of hope again, 
God-kissed blessing from above, 
All, and everything I love — 

Y. O. U. 
5 



Stub Ends of 



REEP smiling. Cheerfulness has 
found its way through many 
darkened paths in which despair was 
lost. 

Envy is a microbe that thrives in 
the heart of success which our small 
natures are incapable of reaching. 

There are but few problems of fate 
too difficult to solve, provided we be- 
gin right and work hard enough. 

The highest order of love is that un- 
selfish friendship or affection which can 
only receive as its compensation a reci- 
procated devotion. 

One lie may conceal a truth, but 
many untruths will often disclose a 
fact. 

Doubts are the children that cling 
to the skirts of Courage and Confi- 
dence. 

Don't go around the world looking 
for chips to knock off your own shoul- 
ders. 

How many of us never find out what 
we really want until it is hopelessly 
lost to us forever ! 
6 



Thought & Verse 



BUILD all the air castles your 
fancy craves, then turn your 
back on the ruins as they fall. 

If a fellow can manage somehow to 
compass a large hope his fears are al- 
ways within control. 

Life is so short and death so long. 
Brace up, keep smiling and burn the 
bridges behind you! 

Silence too often spells indifference 
or neglect, and forgetfulness is merely 
a convenient form of selfishness. 

Is it the mother in woman's love or 
the child in man's nature that makes 
them so necessary each to the other? 

There is only one woman in the 
whole world — the one that you and I 
have found absolutely necessary to us. 

The desolate silence of indifference 
and neglect reaches its millenium of 
disappointment in the night of neces- 
sity. 

The only true diagnosis of absolute 
love is proved by the God-touched test 
of self-sacrifice and unselfish devotion. 



Stub Ends of 



WE learn a new lesson of the 
beauty of sunshine after be- 
ing bound within the shadows and 
away from Nature for a time. 

We never know the worst side of a 
man until he has been driven into a 
corner by the weakness of his self- 
constructed position. 

Children show us what life should 
be; we teach them what life is. 

A man is always a man; a woman 
frequently only what a man makes her. 

Bringing sunshine into the lives of 
others drives away clouds from our 
own. 

An ounce of unsolicited kindness 
weighs more than a pound of requested 
favors. 

Living down a past is generally a 
more difficult task than the building up 
of a future. 

A man without conscience is, gener- 
ally, devoid of courage and sense of 
justice. 

8 



Thought & Verse 



If our best intentions become ac- 
tions, remorse would become an un- 
known quantity. 

Before we attempt to criticise our 
superiors we should first endeavor to 
become their peer. 

Charity tied to a string of self-grati- 
fication is only distantly related to 
genuine generosity. 

^% £% t&& 

THOUGHT. 

Thought is the cornerstone of every 
structural thing, 
The faithful father of each substance 
true, 
Without it reason has no earnest ring, 
And new accomplishments are rare 
and few. 

Thought is the infant dawn of each 
new day, 
A mighty power unknown in its 
worth, 
Its true conception for a time con- 
cealed, 
Yet governs all important work on 
earth. 



Stub Ends of 



WHAT many men call friendship 
is often nothing but a selfish 
absorption upon honest regard. 

There is no nature so degenerate but 
what suffers occasionally from spas- 
modic sensations of remorse. 

The man that clasps duty firmly 
with one hand as a rule holds achieve- 
ment confidently in the other. 

What we have done in the past 
may, perhaps, be forgotten for the sake 
of what we will do in the future. 

What might have been never hurts 
so much as when brought face to face 
with what may never be again. 

Those who are too weak to accept 
rational criticism gracefully are, as a 
rule, most susceptible to flattery. 

Anticipation acts as a magnifying 
glass to realization, and long pursuit is 
too often followed by short possession. 

In order to protect commonplace ap- 
pearance, how much comfort is sacri- 
ficed upon the altar of public opinion? 
10 



Thought & Verse 



IF you want to test the sincerity and 
loyalty of a woman's affection, en- 
deavor to have her associate with your 
enemies. 

The admission that we are some- 
times wrong is an honest, manly way 
of establishing the fact that we are fre- 
quently right. 

I have more respect for a man who 
believes what he does not practice than 
for one who practices what he does 
not believe. 

It is far better to ride a hobby than 
to nurse a misfortune. 

Every dog must have his bone. Don't 
disturb him — get one for yourself. 

Truth may be as violently violated 
by silence as by expressed falsehood. 

It is but a dirty dishonesty that takes 
refuge behind a temporary advantage. 

Without self-restraint we drift help- 
lessly and hopelessly upon the tide of 
impulse. 

Most of the power we possess comes 
from the love we hold, or have lost and 
remember. 



Stub Ends of 



IT is not enough that we be simply 
consistent, but earnestly true to 
our convictions. 

Loneliness builds a wall of self-isola- 
tion around us that only companion- 
ship can scale. 

Only that love which we fear to lose 
faithfully represents the affection that 
we hope to retain. 

Some of us attempt to cover with an 
exhibition of temper the weakness of 
our pacific position. 

The right way to measure a man is 
around the heart first, thence through 
sincerity to judgment. 

When we face the exception of fame 
the rule of obscurity ostracizes a con- 
dition it cannot reach. 

Opportunity consists only of that 
condition which we take advantage of 
or neglect to recognize. 

Individuality is the wall that bars 
out a man from his fellows and sepa- 
rates him from the sympathy of being 
understood. 

12 



Thought & Verse 



Little things are the tools upon 
which the foundation of great things 
are laid. 

The best lesson of life we ever learn 
is that one which teaches us our limited 
capacity. 

Irrational ambition drags more of its 
disciples down than it uplifts to reali- 
zation. 

The real policy of economy is only 
found through a well-balanced system 
of expenditure. 

t&& i3& i3& 

A TOAST. 

Here's to the friends we have loved and 
known, 

In the dear old days that have passed 
away ; 

And, here's to the flowers that have 
lived and blown, 

Yet now bloom again in new life to- 
day. 

God bless the memories of other day, 

May the merciful head of Heaven bend 

Towards all those whom the years have 
tried, 

And proved the friendship of our 
friends. 

13 



Stub Ends of 



IT takes what the world calls a good 
fellow to set what the church 
terms a bad example. 

All permanent things are founded 
upon reciprocity, and survive only up- 
on that condition. 

It is that fearful sense of separation 
from hope, belief and faith that holds 
us down at times. 

To be misunderstood by others is a 
misfortune, but to misunderstand cur- 
selves is a calamity. 

Real, unadulterated admiration and 
faith live only in the heart of a child 
and in the eyes of a dog. 

Let us forget those things that were 
left undone and remember only what 
yet may be accomplished. 

We cannot audit or locate the rev- 
enue that is lost through unsound and 
inconsistent business methods. 

Loyalty and enthusiasm pay the ad- 
ditional wages that are earned by undi- 
vided effort and thought. 
14 



Thought & Verse 



If you wish to be miserable wrap 
yourself up in yourself and memorize 
all the misfortunes that pessimism sug- 
gests. 

We should try and make the world 
better, not by taking something bad out 
of it, but by adding something good to 
what is here. 

There is no normal man without a 
purpose. 

Real love knows no law save that of 
self-sacrifice. 

Wounded self-esteem seldom heals 
without a scar. 

<£» <£& »£• 

INGRATITUDE. 

It is not the price of the sacrifice, 
Or the stamp of its market worth; 
It is not the sleep-breaking fear that 
wounds 
Or the desolate silence that hurts. 
It is learning to know, as our empty 
heart 
Is aching for one caress, 
That no one seems to understand 
And everyone cares the less. 
15 



Stub Ends of 



FAITH is the fiction upon which 
the plot of fact is laid out. 

It is better to have one woman be- 
lieve in you than to believe in all wom- 
en. 

The best part of man does not exist 
beyond the circle of woman's influence. 

Love is the only weapon in the world 
that we can fight the world with and 
win. 

Nothing develops character more 
than a faithfully followed sense of re- 
sponsibility. 

Marriage with the average man is a 
romance, and with the average woman 
a refuge. 

The average woman cannot afford to 
be frank in regard to herself. Don't 
expect her to be. 

The touch of tenderness has broken 
down more barriers than the strength 
of power has upbuilt. 

Many of us establish for ourselves a 
code of ethics based on individual, ra- 
ther than general, accepted conditions. 
16 



Thought & Verse 



Fools are excellent mimics in the 
short-comings of their superiors. It is 
sympathy, not censure, that helps us to 
forget our ills and renew our efforts. 

A PRAYER. 
Oh, God of Reason, live thou with me 

yet, 
Lest in this darkness I may now forget 
The way to turn, the path that I should 

tread, 
And find the way of selfishness instead, 
Or learn the weight of all my life's re- 
gret! 
Oh, God of Reason, live thou with me 
yet! 

I've hoped, and prayed, for counsel 

through the night, 
Some hand to light and guide me in the 

right; 
Thy name is love, and in that name I 

pray. 
Show me, oh God, the right and honest 

way, 
I still remember, and would not now 

forget ! 
Oh, God of Reason, live thou with me 

yet! 

17 



Stub Ends of 



THE haunting spirit of discontent 
stands in its own sunshine and 
creates its own shadow. 

Decency cannot afford to kick ont 
of its path the filthy cur of prejudice 
and untruth. 

Habits are at first the cobwebs of 
environment, and at last the chains of 
servitude. 

It is often easier to obtain forgive- 
ness from others than to consistently 
grant self-absolution. 

He who knows nothing can doubt 
nothing; but it is often the ignorance 
that hurts. 

The essentials of modern intellectual 
development consist of brevity and di- 
rectness in all things. 

The executive spirit of self-control 
is the first lesson that real leadership 
must learn and recognize. 

There are many of us who dare in- 
flict a wound, but yet lack sufficient 
moral courage to face its scar. 

The rolling stone of experience 
gathers the valued moss that grows 
only on the surface of the best policy. 
18 



Thought & Verse 



THERE are so many shadows in 
the world; let each of us con- 
sider it our life duty to drive just one 
away. 

Happiness is a beautiful picture of 
anticipated fancy and is found only in 
the arms of realized devotion. 

The most cowardly of all human 
weaknesses is to permit others to suf- 
fer for faults that belong to ourselves. 

; Enmity stands sponsor at the bap- 
tism of friendship. 

There is only one love and that one 
knows no self. 

It is only after we have lost all faith 
in all things that hope dies. 

When dogs bark, the answering call 
comes only from another of their kind. 

The most venomous of all lies are 
those breathed from lips we have 
kissed. 

There are kind ways of doing un- 
kind things, and merciful paths on the 
way of justice. 

Nature demands full toll to-morrow 
for every step we take to-day on her 
prohibited paths. 

19 



Stub Ends of 



LITTLE matters of neglect are the 
infant conditions of large ques- 
tions of loss and expense. 

The greatest and best incentive to 
noble action is laid before the shrine of 
unselfish devotion. 

Adverse and unjust criticism is fre- 
quently only a lie that one fool creates 
and all fools believe. 

The great concentrated forces of 
thought and action can only reach their 
real value when combined. 

Any sentiment-cursed fool can make 
a good resolution, but it takes a man 
to pay his notes of indiscretion with- 
out protest. 

The world regards weakness as a 
crime, yet self-made strength is seldom 
considered more than an incident of 
fate. 

Self-repression is the hardest lesson 
that logic has to learn. 

Every successful effort must bear the 
indelible stamp of purpose. 

What a terrible price we sometimes 
pay for the supremacy of self-respect! 
20 



Thought & Verse 



YOURS, AS IN OTHER DAYS. 
Yours, as in other days, now and for- 

evermore, 
Before the clouds of doubt and fear 

appeared ; 
Yours, as in other days, now and for- 

evermore, 
In memory's sacred, happier, brighter 

years ; 
Before the springtime bud of hope had 

blown 
And broke its petals on the path of 

faith; 
Before our full, sweet flower of love 

was known, 
And resignation taught us how to hope 

and wait. 

Yours, as in other days, now and for- 
evermi le, 

Before the glorious summer of thy 
devotion 

Had turned my heart towards the dawn 
again, 

Where, on the horizon of Fate's relent- 
less ocean, 

I, with you, read the writing of despair 
and pain — 

God's verdict and the world's, upon 
the wall ; 

21 



Stub Ends of 



Yet stand we with outstretched hands 

beside the shore, 
Yours, as in other days, now and for- 

evermore. 

t£& <&* %0* 

LIFE is the mother that nourishes 
the mortality of to-day into the 
eternity of to-morrow. 

Every association worth possession 
is that of work or love, and either are 
worth living for. 

A sense of duty and pride is often 
stronger than a realization of right — 
hence the consequences. 

The law of influence makes us what 
we are, whether we control ourselves 
or allow others to do so. 

The only castles of life that stand 
the storms are those built on a founda- 
tion of love and contentment. 

The tide has gone out burdened with 
our good intentions, and will return 
to-morrow for more. 

At least one-half of the adverse crit- 
icism we hear is untrue, and the re- 
mainder frequently unjust. 
22 



Thought & Verse 



THE first requisite and only ex- 
tenuating circumstance of indis- 
cretion is that we shall be discreetly 
indiscreet. 

A Christian is anyone who can and 
will, through self-sacrifice, make some- 
one or something better than it was 
before. 

Intelligence is frequently nursed into 
genius at the breast of Necessity. 

Love is the cream that rises to the 
surface on the milk of human kindness. 

The only remedy for a plague of pes- 
simism is the antitoxin of optimistic 
faith. 

Absolute happiness dies in the arms 
of absolute loyalty to duty and con- 
science. 

No honest man will receive in silence 
a recognized correction of his own mis- 
take. 

When will the average woman learn 
that censure but adds fuel to the flame 
of fault? 

There is often an impassive agent of 
Providence concealed in our first im- 
pulse to do right. 

23 



Stub Ends of 



WHENEVER a man denies labor 
as a law he must be prepared 
to receive it as a penance. 

Misfortune is always for those who 
anticipate it by the abandonment of 
proper effort. 

Only the best we can do is good 
enough to satisfy the honest purpose of 
earnest effort. 

Intelligence receives suggestion with 
appreciation; ignorance damns it with 
envious construction. 

The church offers forgiveness for sin ; 
education and science extend a preven- 
tive of wrong doing. 

No man is entirely his own master, 
yet he may master himself by respect- 
ing the conditions that control him. 

It requires more strength of char- 
acter to clean up a soiled reputation 
than to keep one free from contamina- 
tion. 

How prone some of us are to blame 
others for falling over the obstacles 
that we located only through their 
misfortune. 

24 



Thought & Verse 



DISCONTENT is a fearful condi- 
tion of unrest, yet it is often an 
incentive to renewed effort and the in- 
fant state of result. 

A surface disregard of sentiment 
often only indicates a lack of sincerity. 

The scorn of many is frequently out- 
weighed by the admiration of a few. 

Some men incapable of entering the 
field of creative art, attempt to break 
down in their ignorance, structures 
that they lack sufficient brains to con- 
ceive. 

Usually an apology is inferior to a 
fault, especially if the former is ex- 
pressed under pressure and the latter 
premeditated. 

One of the most difficult obstables 
to overcome in business and social in- 
tercourse is the man who is ignorant 
of his ignorance. 

More anger is created in the minds 
of fools by the success of others than 
sympathy for misfortune in the hearts 
of men. 

The ideas of others are most intelli- 
gently served in their original pack- 
ages, and from a primary source. 
25 



Stub Ends of 

£"|OME men are as susceptible to 
WJ? kindness and consideration as a 
child, yet too often such dispositions 
are most frequently misunderstood. 

Where shall we draw the line be- 
tween forgetfulness and neglect? 

Criminal carelessness and dishonesty 
are too close together to equitably 
separate. 

Home life and the love that binds us 
to that shrine, sv/ays the greatest gen- 
eral influence in the world. 

Many people who are first to say of 
a dear friend, "He was a good fellow,'* 
were the last to find a worthy feature 
in the living character. 

The absolute negative of common 
sense is represented by willful and self- 
obstructed ignorance. 

Small men in large positions curb the 
views of others with their own. 

Friendship whispers in confidence 
many things that justice asserts should 
be openly demonstrated. 

How much common weal is sacrificed 
upon the altar of selfish individualism. 

26 



Thought & Verse 



Many of us lack sufficient sight to 
see both sides of an argument, object 
or purpose. 

It is always necessary to sacrifice 
something to honesty and better to sur- 
render our opinion than self respect. 

A great injustice is often done ability 
by its confinement to a condition which 
affords no scope for development. 

l2rl t&& 90& 

A TOAST. 

Here's to the man of weight and worth, 
That lives in the lives of others, 
Broad and strong in heart and girth 
And true to the weal of his brothers; 
That yields a line of knowledge tried, 
Free from all taunt and pain, 
And never bars the brightness out 
From the shade of Effort's lane. 

Here's to the man that dares to tell 
The truth in the face of fear, 
And hopes for heaven, yet finds no hell 
In the dread of approaching years ; 
And draws no curtain before the fact, 
Of his knowledge of men and things, 
But leads the faltering pilgrim back 
With the love that charity brings. 
27 



Stub Ends of 



AN assertion above criticism is as 
a rule an idea without worth. 

The only extenuating condition of 
untried strength is weakness. 

In the house of discord, silence is the 
only word that spells peace. 

The greatest evidence of real 
strength is to learn how to restrain it. 

There is no limit of value to the 
chain letter of courteous consideration. 

Unselfish love will find many white 
spots upon the dark surface of fault. 

Let us all attend the funeral of ill 
nature toward all mankind, and bury 
it deep. 

It is the waste energy of care that 
draws so heavily from the strength of 
hope. 

Real life consists of contact with live 
things, God's nature, and a love of 
them all. 

Experience of any kind, and of every 
description, is the only true developer 
of life. 

Talent develops itself in thought and 
research ; he who abandons either aban- 
dons all. 

28 



Thought & Verse 



THE best test of manhood is an in- 
dividual one, and can only be 
illustrated by our own character. 

Envy and suspicion against our fel- 
lows is frequently indicated by the 
weakness of our own character. 

Let us look the facts of the world in 
the face to-day and forget the fiction 
of yesterday's mistakes. 

Reticence and stupidity may repre- 
sent nothing but the undeveloped re- 
verse, and should excite nothing but 
sympathy. 

A service system that rewards ability 
only with the occupation of dead men's 
shoes is confronted with a grave ques- 
tion. 

Too many of us measure immorality 
by its consequences, and prefer to re- 
pent a wrong rather than avoid its 
commission. 

Remember that the tide of happiness 
and self respect is drawn just this side 
of the line that divides income from 
expenditure. 

As conditions change with age and 
experience, temptation errors lessen 
with the years. 

29 



Stub Ends of 



THERE should be no friendship in 
business beyond the line of 
duty — yet how hard it is to draw the 
line. 

Genius often lies starving at the gate 
of crime, and ignorance laughs while 
knowledge sighs. 

The evasion of a fault does not cor- 
rect it or the diagnosis of a disease 
effect a cure. 

How many wives are at the seashore 
of neglect this summer? 

We cannot dictate an immutable law 
of morals. Such things are, and must 
be governed by personal views and en- 
vironments. 

Small prejudices often find expres- 
sion in small natures. 

No man is entitled to the considera- 
tion of gentlemen, who fails to respect 
their good opinion, by the neglect of 
respect for himself. 

The flower of passion, soon crushed 
in the hand of time, leaves love alone 
save to lean upon the friendship and 
memory of the dead bloom. 

30 



Thought & Verse 



OFTEN our strength is best dem- 
onstrated by allowing those 
who wish for our weakness to believe 
it exists. 

The facts of to-day help us to form 
a foundation for the fiction of to- 
morrow. 

Some of the good things we do are 
often undone by the bad things we 
say. 

The extravagance of the present too 
often becomes a necessity of the future. 

We only weaken the strength of 
right, by removing the temptations of 
wrong. 

No man knows the extent of his abil- 
ity until he has failed in an attempt 
to realize it. 

The little lights that go out when 
faith is questioned never shine quite 
as bright again when the tide of ex- 
planation returns. 

There is no antidote known to the 
scince of philosophy that will entirely 
counteract the poison of prejudiced 
insinuation. 

3i 



Stub Ends of 



THE definition of dishonesty in- 
cludes the disregard of interests 
that we are paid to protect. 

Who is there among us that does not 
associate his best impulses with the 
touch of a woman's hand. 

The gentleness of woman's charac- 
ter is best brought out by the environ- 
ment of man's brutality. 

Sometimes amid the rags of a beg- 
gared reputation may be found a jewel 
too valuable for surface critics to have 
suspected its existence. 

An uncertain amount of vice is a 
necessary ingredient to a certain 
amount of virtue. 

Genius is never intelligently opera- 
tive unless accompanied by sufficient 
audacity of purpose to offset the op- 
posing force of ignorance. 

Do not make a woman your con- 
fessor, she will not believe you have 
told her all the truth. 

In the depths of the best part of 
human nature there are many virtues 
that never rise to the surface. 
32 



Thought & Verse 



If we must be indiscreet, let indiscre- 
tion be tempered with judgment. 

The constitution existing between 
friends should be subject to any amend- 
ment that necessity suggests. 

Still reaching out beyond from what 
we have, we tear and hurt our hands 
upon ambition's thorns. 

07% %&* %£& 

RESIGNATION. 

On the line of all our efforts 

Bloom the sacred flowers of memory, 

Sweet and pure in retrospection 

As a child's prayer at a shrine. 

It is then that we remember 

Which was wrong and what is right, 

As a dying sun surrenders 

To the heritage of night. 

So we live in recollection 
In the garden of our love, 
Where the red rose of affection 
Broke the first leaves of its bud. 
As we saw it bloom in fragrance 
In the spring-time of its youth, 
May our hopes find resignation 
In a memory for the truth. 

33 



Stub Ends of 

BABY talk ties more men to their 
homes and duty than pulpit elo- 
quence sways to effort. 

Between the drifting of the clouds of 
life, in hopeful eyes may always be ob- 
served a strip of heaven's clear blue 
horizon, proving that the sun still 
shines beyond. 

Some weaknesses are indirect evi- 
dence of strength in our ability to over- 
come them. 

The dignity and tenderness of 
motherhood brings out the sweetest, 
gentlest sentiment in womankind. 

Some men fail in their efforts to suc- 
ceed on account of their ambitions ex- 
ceeding the ability to accomplish. 

May the head of heaven turn in ten- 
derness towards the woman who can 
find nothing to admire in her husband. 

The lights are not always out ; mem- 
ory sometimes like a lightning flash 
out of the past, sheds a glare of truth 
upon the present, then leaves us hope- 
less and alone again. 
34 



Thought & Verse 



TO tell a lie gracefully in a spirit of 
mercy, is often more humane 
than the plain brutal truth. 

Among the everlasting flowers of 
love none bloom more fragrant than the 
rose of faith. 

The smooth fat face of those who 
never think, has consolation in the ab- 
sence of the lines of care that mark 
their way beneath the eyes of thought. 

The intelligent co-operation of sub- 
ordinates in business management, 
paves the way to knowledge, power 
and promotion. 

Labor has compensation in a duty 
done, and all the sweet sensation of 
rewarded rest. 

There is no honesty in an ambition 
that would lift up one side of human 
nature and drag down the other. 

Judicious expenditure is the father 
of rational and well conceived economy. 

Widows are attractive on account of 
experience having taught them the art 
of advantageous concealment. 

35 



Stub Ends of 



IF hell is conscience, all its tortures 
tear the wakening sleeper in in- 
somnia's toils between the awakening 
moment and the dawn of day. 

How man's opinion withers before 
a woman's will — or won't. 

Among the numerous counterfeits of 
friendship there comes sometimes a 
sincere devotion that sustains and 
lightens the lives of both. 

A man may have a good opinion of 
himself, but should not permit his self- 
conscious condition to break out. 

It is a questionable kind of economy 
that will create a shrinkage on both 
sides of the ledger. 

The nakedness of truth often calls a 
blush to the face of fact. 

One of the consolations of old age is 
to follow one's inclinations without the 
dangers of youth's impetuous indiscre- 
tions. 

Often when a man says nothing he 
sense to express himself. 
36 



Thought & Verse 



HOW many sacrifices of life and 
happiness are laid upon the al- 
tar of apperance. 

No man ever yet swaggered into a 
permanent and successful position in 
life. 

How sweet the consolation and 
knowledge that one heart beats for us 
alone, and though in silence, knows no 
life beyond the circle of its love. 

A beautiful thought and noble ac- 
tion out-values all the utilities of a 
beautiful world. 

What woman do not wear attract 
men the most, but outward adornment 
in men often sways women. 

There are some natures that can only 
meet each other after the manner of 
cymbals. May the milk-white dove of 
peace keep them apart. 

The soft white hands of women 
smooth out with love and sacrifice the 
lines of care along the pathway that 
duty and integrity tread. 

It is better to spare pain by telling a 
lie than to cause it by a truth un- 
touched with mercy. 
37 



Stub Ends of 



SMALL men in large positions are 
constrained to force their efforts 
out of proportion to their ability. 

Those who possess the courage of 
their own convictions must be prepared 
to overcome the prejudice of others 
having no convictions to possess. 

Let us not starve upon the disap- 
pointment of yesterday, but strive to 
nourish ourselves with the hope of to- 
morrow. 

In the little hearts of children alone 
lives the sweet secret of contented 
peace. 

There is no line in the license of 
matrimony that permits censure. 

Let us deal tenderly with those who 
possess our own faults, and in the mir- 
ror of another see and correct the dis- 
torted image of ourselves. 

The generosity of some people is 
often largely regulated by the liber- 
ality of others. 

It is indicative of strength to pos- 
sess power, but an illustration of weak- 
ness to lose it. 

38 



Thought & Verse 



OVE learns the best lesson of love 
from the hand of friendship. 

Only those who pull against the 
stream can feel and realize the great 
strength of the opposite current. 

The best possible illustration of con- 
sistent economy is proven by the re- 
sult of intelligent expenditure. 

Love of all kinds, at all times, is 
beautiful, but that tested by sin and 
adversity is divine. 

Small prejudices and small minds 
are synonymous weaknesses of human 
nature. 

I never believed that humanity pos- 
sessed a weakness of which its critic 
was entirely innocent. 

We all exaggerate more or less, and 
only careful effort in this respect pre- 
vents the development of a failure into 
a fault. 

The resolute enforcement and pro- 
vision for to-raorrow should be con- 
sidered equally essential with the 
demands of to-day. 
39 



S tu b Ends of 

SOME people are often suspicious 
about those things which they 
are unable to occomplish themselves. 

Warmed-over love loses, in the pro- 
cess of reformed conditions, all its 
original flavor and most of its primary 
sweetness. 

The influence of perfect home-life 
leads more converts to church than the 
churches send penitents to firesides. 

Gratitude and appreciation is fath- 
ered by an instinct found in dogs, and 
also in occasional rare specimens of 
human life. 

It is not what we have that we value 
so much, but what we have lost, and 
cannot find again. 

There are no harbors on the sea of 
life, for those who nurse or tremble at 
every wave of pain. 

A kiss may heal a thoughtless word, 
but it often leaves a scar that cannot 
be obliterated. 

When a woman ceases to ask a man 
how much he cares for her, it is gen- 
erally an accurate indication that she 
is not interested. 

40 



Thought & Verse 



Large minds are uninfluenced by the 
petty prejudices of small ones. 

"I can't" is frequently nothing but a 
whine, a sign of weakness, and an evi- 
dence of indolence. 

Respectability is often only thor- 
oughly appreciated and valued at its 
real cost, after it has been lost and 
found again. 

^* j* ^» 

MOTHER. 

In the great warm heart of the country, 

In the soul of our sacred pride, 
One memory lives forever; 

And the warmth of our home fireside, 
With loving retrospection 

To the present comes again, 
As a day of rest from sorrow 

Oft follows a night of pain. 
And tender recollections 

Of the mother gone away, 
Wears yesterday's laurels with honor 

On the heart of our love to-day ; 
As a kiss of a past devotion 

Outlives what we fain forget, 
And the breath of a rose, tho* broken, 

Blooms sweet in our memory yet. 
4i 



Stub Ends of 

THE love we create in the hearts 
of others, lives after us, and of- 
ten softens other lives toward their 
fellows in pain. 

Expressions of good intentions not- 
withstanding, we are only indispens- 
able in the place where we make 
ourselves so. 

The indication of real, earnest affec- 
tion is not placidity; such a condition 
is often brought about, however, by 
resignation to unavoidable circum- 
stances. 

If we will study ourselves thoroughly 
and form a correct diagnosis, based on 
experience and research, we have, to 
a large extent, secured a general im- 
pression of all mankind. 

Weak minds endeavor to enter into 
an understanding with strength, and 
effect such a compromise as will most 
easy serve the object of their purpose. 

What some people call bad luck is 
really nothing more than ill judgment 
and lack of self-confidence. 

Grief is often only the night of to- 
morrow's dawn; and to-day's failures 
frequently the father of to-morrow's 
success. 42 



Thought & Verse 



THE world, to a large extent, will 
recognize a man at his own valu- 
ation and personal estimate. 

Honest and unselfish love finds its 
sole compensation within the circle of 
appreciation. 

God help all the poor, little human 
parasites that cling, without compen- 
sation, like barnacles, upon the hull of 
those who feel in honor bound to har- 
bor and support them. 

The butterfly of love may be short 
lived, but what a beautiful creature it 
is during its momentary existence upon 
the rose of affection. 

Those who really, earnestly and un- 
selfishly love, never either doubt or 
misunderstand one another. 

Let us make, through ernest effort, 
the best of to-day, and hope with con- 
fidence for something better to- 
morrow. 

God is still God, just as the sun is 
yet the sun, notwithstanding the clouds 
that shadow it at times. 

43 



Stub Ends of 



A GOOD name is an ever ready 
endorsement to-day for the se- 
curity of to-morrow's payments, based 
on yesterday's transactions. 

The herald of hope will, with our 
endeavor, always keep ahead of fear, 
even though it may come quite close 
at times. 

Little minds note the small things 
of life with prejudice; and overlook 
larger matters beyond the circle of 
their comprehension. 

It is always well for safety's sake to 
candle an egg to-day that was sus- 
pected of being bad yesterday. 

Incompetence always has to pay the 
wages of superior ability that is em- 
ployed to correct lack of sufficiency. 

The best test of strength in a well 
seasoned mind is the power to accept 
and recognize an idea outside of our 
own experience. 

What others may think regarding 
our actions should carry no weight be- 
yond the extent of where we are 
wrong. 

44 



Thought & Verse 



We must either bow gracefully to 
and accept the superiority of intelli- 
gence, or be prepared to receive the 
sudden impact of its force. 

&5* fc7* %G* 

RETROSPECTION. 
Away down, deep in our heart of 
hearts, 
Aprt from passion's transient fire, 
Far from the highway of our sins 
And the demons of our desire, 
There lives a memory, sacred sweet 
Through the faltering night of sor- 
row, 
That helps us hope with repentant 
faith 
For the glorious dawn of to-morrow. 

And though like a mirage the hope 
appears 
In our desert of doubt and care, 
We, nevertheless, will happier be, 
Because we have seen it there. 
For, like a rose that fades and dies, 

In its budding youth too soon, 
We may view the flower with tearful 
eyes 
In memory of its bloom. 
45 



Stub Ends of 



LET us throw out our sound-lines 
frequently and endeavor as 
often as possible to ascertain just 
where we are. 

How small large things appear some- 
times, when viewed in the mirror of 
prejudice, and through the eyes of 
ignorance. 

The flowers of passion cannot con- 
sistently be pressed within the leaves 
of memory. 

Self-respect is the foundation upon 
which self-confidence builds its struc- 
tures. 

The man who knows, and knows that 
he knows, gages his own strength and 
does not attempt to go beyond it. 

When we start out with an object 
in view we should always hold in re- 
serve sufficient energy to walk back 
again. 

Many a hit dog stifles his cry, hop 
ing to cover with the darkness of 
silence the light of his guilt. 

The efforts of experienced ability 
directed before a tribunal of ignorance, 
represents about as much waste energy 
as the pleading of legal genius before 
a deaf jury. 4 <5 



Thought & Verse 



Absolute loyalty is of more value 
than absolute competency, as with the 
former requisite, the latter deficiency 
may be overcome. 

If it takes fifty per cent, of devotion 
to hold a sweetheart, the result 
multiplied by two should retain a 
husband. 

Our enemies often probe below the 
surface for our faults, while friendship 
only governs itself by appearances as 
regards our virtues. 

*3* t&™ *&* 

THE DREAMER. 
Dream on and hope, there is no goal 
to reach 
Except the one we yet have failed 
to find; 
No object won, or castles quite com- 
lete, 
Beyond the mammoth structures of 
the mind. 
By looking high, we surely strike a 
line 
Beneath the circle of our lofty aim, 
And finding effort courts accomplish- 
ment, 
Receive encouragement to aim again. 

47 



Stub Ends of 



THERE is no compensation in the 
labor of love save that of grati- 
tude. 

It is not circumstances that make or 
mar the home but the nature and tem- 
perament of the people within it. 

Patient endurance for right's sake 
is God-like in its sacrifice of self. 

An exhibition of too much confidence 
in others indicates, to some extent, a 
lack of that virtue in ourselves. 

We can often acquire valuable 
knowledge by the intelligent ob- 
servance and study of the ways of 
ignorance. 

Home-making hearts are the lightest, 
and fireside love is the sweetest and 
purest thing in the world. 

We are all made of the same ma- 
terial; let us all endeavor then to 
recognize and find the same excuses 
for others that we find for ourselves. 

There is a dramatic side to every 
romance and sooner or later it must 
be written. 

Imitation is an evidence of esteem, 
and unjust criticism an exhibition of 
envy and dishonesty. 
48 



Thought & Verse 



EVERY condition has its compen- 
sation. There is even some con- 
solation in not wanting that which we 
are unable to procure. 

We can build air castles so high in 
our earnestness of to-day that they will 
entirely obscure the ruins of yester- 
day's hopes. 

A man's expression of sentiment, if 
in all sincere, means nothing more than 
giving words to good thoughts. 

There should be a premium placed 
on all individual ability, and recogni- 
tion of same beyond the pale of pre- 
judice. 

Anticipated failure shakes the plank 
of opportunity that lies across the 
stream of success. 

Some men attempt to cover their 
ignorance by an aggressive silence and 
tacitly insult us by an offensive absence 
of expressed opinion. 

The shadows and lights of life come 
and go just in accordance with the way 
we turn towards them. 

Strength is not proven by its test 
with strength, but in its power to com- 
bat with and overcome weakness. 

49 



Stub Ends of 



'EAR and imagination are the 
cause of more unrest and unhap- 
piness than the actual result of facts 
and fate. 

Logical loyalty consists of the pos- 
session of sufficient moral courage to 
hold and express an opinion, at vari- 
ance, if necessary, with the views of 
those we want to serve. 

Deception in the face of generous 
faith and confidence degrades none but 
the one who deceives. 

What many consider an excess of 
pride is frequently only a lack of com- 
mon sense. 

Innocence need fear no doubt of be- 
ing discovered, and guilt no hope 
beyond that of ultimate punishment. 

It is best to let others find out our 
virtues, and keep within ourselves the 
knowledge of any good we possess, as 
a reserve fund to protect the maturity 
of our faults. 

If the week days of life are kept clean 
God may find it easy to pardon the 
shortcomings of our Sunday life. 
50 



Thought & Verse 



THERE are two ways of proving a 
lack of information, one is by 
saying nothing and the other by say- 
ing too much. 

Under the wings of nobility in char- 
acter the best part of love finds its 
permanent refuge in consolation and 
faith. 

It is often necessary for us to sacri- 
fice our individuality for the welfare 
of others, if only to prove that general 
opinion must rule even though it be 
wrong. 

Absolute faith in either God or man 
is productive of absolute peace and 
sense of security. 

When we permit our money to in- 
fluence our friends, we may expect 
them to respond only to the source 
from whence they came. 

It is only after the line of happiness 
has been broken, that we really know 
and appreciate its value. 

Every man should believe his wife 
to be the purest and best woman on 
earth; and every woman should con- 
sider her husband superior to all other 
men. 

Si 



Stub Ends of 



LET us be as good as we can, and 
the best part of others will meet 
us in sympathy, and help us hold up 
our standard. 

There can be no real executive abil- 
ity without the possession of that posi- 
tive knowledge, which comes only after 
earnest research and actual experience. 

How many of us satisfy our own 
sense of unselfishness, by the perform- 
ance of those things that are easy, and 
the discussion only of real self sacrifice. 

Where is the line in reason drawn, 
between the spirit of ambition and a 
condition of discontent and unrest? 

Cheerfulness is an antidote that over- 
comes the microbes of morbid and 
anticipated ills. 

The man who knows how to obey 
well, in matters he would learn, can 
as a rule, order intelligently in the 
things he knows. 

The cross of to-day would be far 
more light if it were not burdened with 
yesterday's errors and regret. 

52 



Thought & Verse 



IT is unfortunate that but few women 
realize the importance of showing 
the best side of their character to their 
husbands. 

The faith we have is often, in many 
ways, nothing more than well-devel- 
oped hope, clearly defined and under- 
stood. 

When we do our best, we perform 
our duty; without regard to the result 
of our efforts. 

Ordinary charity may relieve the 
consequence of poverty; but real 
philanthropy must deal with the cause 
of existing conditions, and correct 
them. 

We may receive all we deserve; but 
the estimate is generally made accord- 
ing to the impulse and generosity of 
those who pay out to us the rations 
of appreciation. 

There are some people whom we like, 
but do not admire; and others we ad- 
mire, but do not like; and how hard 
it is to prove sincere in either condi- 
tion. 

53 



Stub Ends of 



ENTHUSIASM is the engine that 
drives our mental capacity to 
effort; and directs our ability to re- 
sults. 

The labor of love is softened by a 
sweet sense of unselfishness, which 
comes with every earnest, happy effort 
for those we care for. 

The errors of conceit are responsible 
for many failures, in which judgment 
and reason have secured no representa- 
tion. 

One of the smallest sides of character 
is illustrated by a disposition to im- 
pose upon those who trust us; to the 
extent of their confidence in our 
sincerity. 

There is no poverty so poor as that 
condition which binds us to obscurity 
and lack of equitable recognition. 

If the same effort was made to hold 
men to their home as is exercised to 
take them away, there would not be 
so many deserted firesides. 

The value of intellectual character 
must be estimated by the use to which 
we place our power and exert our 
efforts. 

54 



Thought & Verse 



BRAVERY quite often exists under 
the shadow of silence, and be- 
neath the hood of unselfish discretion. 

Opportunity stands ever ready to 
clean the slate of to-day, and open a 
new account based on the good prom- 
ises and earnest intentions of to- 
morrow. 

It is generally safe to conclude that 
a man unable to keep his own secret 
is unsafe in the possession of yours. 

Confidence builds the great struc- 
tures of business purpose, and ability 
holds them together. 

There is really more pleasure in the 
creation of happiness than to receive 
it, but only those who have tried this 
can know it to be true. 

We should be slow to criticise a first 
fault, for it is frequently nothing more 
than an accident, for which ignorance 
is responsible. 

Regret is to repentance all that mem- 
ory is to forgetfulness, and both must 
live for the protection of each other. 

55 



Stub Ends of 



IT seems very dark sometimes just 
before the daylight of what we 
hope for, but let us look and work con- 
stantly towards the dawn. 

Folly is always by our side, but rea- 
son only comes to us upon request. 

The only excusable curiosity is that 
one prompted by a desire to be in- 
formed on some subject that we should 
know. 

We all inherit a divine right to love, 
and if we sell or forfeit our inheritance, 
life must and will become merely a 
hopeless obligation. 

(Forgiveness is always tendered in 
the belief that the same wrong will not 
be repeated, and with the hope that its 
influence will help to that end. 

It is better for us to be placidly 
ignorant of an injury than to be vio- 
lently conscious of its intention. 

I have great confidence in the friend- 
ship of my friends, and want to believe 
in them for their own sake and my 
own. 

56 



Thought & Verse 



IT is unfortunate that but few women 
realize the importance of showing 
the best side of their character to their 
husbands. 

The faith we have is often, in many 
ways, nothing more than well-devel- 
oped hope, clearly defined and under- 
stood. 

When we do our best, we perform 
our duty; without regard to the result 
of our efforts. 

Ordinary charity may relieve the 
consequence of poverty; but real 
philanthropy must deal with the cause 
of existing conditions, and correct 
them. 

We may receive all we deserve; but 
the estimate is generally made accord- 
ing to the impulse and generosity of 
those who pay out to us the rations 
of appreciation. 

There are some people whom we like, 
but do not admire; and others we ad- 
mire, but do not like; and how hard 
it is to prove sincere in either condi- 
tion. 

53 



Stub Ends of 



IT seems very dark sometimes just 
before the daylight of what we 
hope for, but let us look and work con- 
stantly towards the dawn. 

Folly is always by our side, but rea- 
son only comes to us upon request. 

The only excusable curiosity is that 
one prompted by a desire to be in- 
formed on some subject that we should 
know. 

We all inherit a divine right to love, 
and if we sell or forfeit our inheritance, 
life must and will become merely a 
hopeless obligation. 

(Forgiveness is always tendered in 
the belief that the same wrong will not 
be repeated, and with the hope that its 
influence will help to that end. 

It is better for us to be placidly 
ignorant of an injury than to be vio- 
lently conscious of its intention. 

I have great confidence in the friend- 
ship of my friends, and want to believe 
in them for their own sake and my 
own. 

56 



Thought & Verse 



ONE of the strongest incentives to 
induce deception in others to- 
wards ourselves is an open evidence of 
suspicion in our attitude towards them. 

Ambition rules and lays the founda- 
tion of all the great things in the world, 
on which are built the permanent struc- 
tures of realization. 

One of the first essential lessons that 
should be instilled into the hearts of 
child-life is the importance of an earn- 
est observance of the fourth command- 
ment. 

It is frequently necessary to concur 
in a fool's opinion, or bear the burden 
of being considered an egotist. 

Only those who have been wounded 
can bend in proper appreciation and 
understanding towards others in pain. 

The only mind impossible of devel- 
opment is that of the egotist ignorant 
of his ignorance. 

The veneer of wealth may conceal 
the deficiency of good birth, provided 
such people preserve their self-control 
and hold their temper. 
57 



Stub Ends of 



REAL business ability demands 
that we shall master system, 
and not enslave ourselves to that con- 
dition. 

There is no deception on earth so 
mean and unmanly as self deception. 

Let every one of us apply the micro- 
scope to our own short-comings before 
we attempt to diagnose our fellows' 
faults. 

The pearls that we cast before swine 
generally cost us more than the same 
value properly appreciated elsewhere. 

How small some of us appear in the 
eyes of others, compared with the dis- 
torted vision that presents itself in the 
mirror of our own conceit. 

It is, as a rule, more easy to con- 
vince a skeptic than to undeceive a 
fool. 

Those that endeavor to minimize the 
minds and morals of others, can only 
expect to excite ridicule and contempt 
against themselves in the opinions of 
justice and reason. 

There is a wanton waste of senti- 
ment in the to-morrow of remorse, that 
might have been appreciated in the 
thoughtfulness of to-day. 
58 



Thought & Verse 



HOW many of us are crucified up- 
on the cross of what we believe 
to be right, in the face of our own de- 
spair. 

The world's stage holds out no ap- 
plause for those who dare to exceed 
the expectations of others in the same 
cast. 

The warm, strong hand of labor and 
love covers all the best parts of the 
world and represents everything divine 
in human character. 

Only those that have been wounded 
can bend with tenderness and under- 
standing towards others in pain. 

The average man's opinion of women 
is founded upon one woman's char- 
acter, and the impression created from 
a knowledge of her individual tempera- 
ment. 

I have just as much confidence in 
my fellow man as I have in myself; 
no more and no less. 

It seems quite natural to suffer 
sometimes for the sake of a cause or 
principle, and things natural are gen- 
erally right. 

59 



Stub Ends of 

GENEROSITY of character and 
a cheerful disposition under self 
sacrifice is an absolute evidence of di- 
vinity in the heart of mankind. 

Hope is really nothing more than a 
beautiful thought, with the foundation 
of belief beneath it. 

Love is the purifier which separates 
all generosity and kindness from a 
sense of obligation. 

Ordinary honesty demands that we 
shall draw a curtain over the faults of 
others, that we possess ourselves. 

It is the motive behind the sin that 
makes it one, and the virtue of inten- 
tion that absolves a seeming wrong. 

Some friendships turn aside when 
the first cloud shadows the sun of suc- 
cess. 

Absolute faith is founded largely on 
absolute hope, and each one strength- 
ens the other. 

Let us come out from the shadows 
of selfishness, and stand in the warm 
sunshine of self sacrifice for a while. 

The pride we have in place and blood 
is only justified when we make it so. 

60 



Thought & Verse 



A man is always safe in spite of 
every influence in earth or heaven, as 
long as he can keep faith in himself. 

The spice of speculation is a danger- 
ous and expensive experiment, but it 
is always necessary to suffer a risk in 
order to enjoy a sensation. 

Caution and enthusiasm are foreign 
to each other. 

%&* ta& i&& 



YOUTH. 

The first fresh opening bud of life's 
young spring, 
The rose just breathing forth its 
sweet perfume, 
The untold consciousness that love-life 
brings, 
Which lives too brief and dies too 
soon. 
Within the circle of our fondest hopes 
Our earliest memories and our dead 
desires, 
We yet hold sacred and devoutly close 
The genial warmth of youth's first 
open fires. 

61 



Stub Ends of 

WIT is often degenerated into 
cruelty, unless gloved with 
merciful consideration for the feelings 
of those it affects. 

One of the most merciful of God's 
laws is that tenderness which draws 
the curtain to-day over the uncertainty 
of to-morrow. 

It is often necessary to restrain our 
impulse in order to successfully exer- 
cise our purpose. 

I have just seen a mother worship 
at the shrine of child-life, and God 
seemed very near at the time. 

The first and most important part of 
all knowledge is our respect and confi- 
dence in the sources from which it 
was obtained. 

Out of the heart of woman comes a 
prayer of thanksgiving for every kiss 
that love and appreciation tenders to 
her worth. 

If every man would endeavor to keep 
just one life out of the shadows, there 
would be no misery in the world. 
62 



Thought & Verse 



GENTLE consideration for those 
less fortunate than ourselves is 
one of the few positive indications of 
good breeding. 

Here's to the dear little home-maker 
of domestic life, who stands on the 
threshold lifting her sweet face for 
the kiss of hope, love and encourage- 
ment. 

There is no permanent happiness 
beyond the line that separates our re- 
sources from our expenses. 

Self reliance is not conceit, we must 
hold ourselves above the hoofs of the 
common herd. 

The real permanent beauty of home 
life is best reflected in the faces of 
those around the firesides of content- 
ment. 

It is pathetically absurd to note the 
extremes that some people will go to 
in order to establish erroneous impres- 
sions about themselves. 

Rise above others if you would be 
hated, and sink beneath them would 
you be despised. 

63 



Stub Ends of 



IT is not those who do not under- 
stand that we should censure, but 
those who do, and yet refuse to avail 
themselves of possessed intelligence. 

Love is an essential to some lives as 
the dew of heaven is necessary to the 
flowers of the morning. 

Investigation would seldom be pur- 
sued, if fact and truth held no object in 
view. 

Sentiment and success are often at 
the extreme end of life's efforts, and 
both pulling in opposite directions. 

Men too small to overcome little ob- 
stacles are not large enough to control 
large accomplishments. 

Discipline is to mental and physical 
training what intelligent architecture 
is to construction. 

Cheap horses under fine blankets re- 
ceive consideration at the starting 
point, but lose their value at the finish. 

Unconscious innocence in woman's 
nature appeals to men like the perfume 
of an unhandled rose. 
64 



Thought & Verse 



A man very seldom realizes the im- 
portance of what he does not do, until 
it is too late to accomplish it. 

There are times when we turn to our 
home, as a wounded child comes to its 
mother for comfort and love. 

Moral strength is best developed in 
the arms of temptation. 

Fools often take offense at what wise 
men laugh over. 

i^v %&& t3& 

THE WOMAN WE LOVE. 

Before the most beautiful works of 
men, 
The queens of music and gods of 
flowers, 
Sacred as paths where angels have 
trod, 
And pure as the breath of child-life 
hours ; 
We kneel uncovered beside the shrine, 
Awed as if touched by the saints 
above, 
Before the beautiful God-kissed eyes 
And the soul of the woman we love. 
65 



______ Stuh Ends of 

UNNECESSARY detail is as 
great an octopus to business as 
the absence of a prope ramount of in- 
telligent system. 

Wit is a virtue only when in the 
hands of those capable of knowing how 
to amuse one without wounding an- 
other. 

Most of our joys are settled in full 
by the ultimate harvest of our grief. 

Obstacles we have climbed over look 
small to us after we have reached the 
summit of life's accomplishments. 

Rascality is, as a rule, measured by 
an individual code of morals, and 
judged largely from a personal stand- 
point. 

There is no limit to the capacity of 
the human heart, it expands exactly 
in proportion to its requirements. 

Courage and confidence is the seal of 
consistent genius. 

We frequently admire most in others 
what we least possess in ourselves. 

The safest course in discussion is to 
breathe an attitude of interest and re- 
main silent. 

66 



Thought & Versi 



GOOD women lead more men into 
Christianity by example than 
the Devil drags away by temptation. 

If there was only one woman on 
earth, she should be a mother large 
enough to take men in her arms. 

The little hands of love are the levers 
that help to lift the weight of effort. 

There is a certain amount of honesty 
in doubt that is commendable, provided 
it leads to investigation. 

Warm hearths hold men to their 
homes and thaw out the gentle side of 
their nature. 

Real strength of character is best 
illustrated on the curtain of adversity. 

Those who abuse prosperity the 
most, condole with misfortune the 
least. 

Keep (if you can) your code of 
knowledge under the cover of request 
for information. 

To think as others do means only to 
share their mistakes, and to think dif- 
ferently, to bear their censures. 

67 



Stub Ends of 



THE primary influence of home and 
mother never entirely goes out 
of our lives. 

Men are sometimes called pessimists 
by those who lack the ability to under- 
stand them. 

If you can't drink intelligently don't 
drink at all. If you do drink at all, 
you can't drink intelligently. 

The attempt to appear what we are 
not, generally casts a clear outline of 
what we are. 

Why is it that human character re- 
spects sincerity and goodness in wom- 
en and suspects the same qualities 
among men? 

Every man is dragged down by a 
condition in life that does not uplift 
him. 

It is so easy to disappoint a hope by 
the indulgence of a doubt. 

A modern form of genius is com- 
mon-sense seasoned with rational judg- 
ment. 

Indecision as to life's intentions but 
deepens the shadows on the highway 
of effort. 



Thought & Verse 



Stupidity is often responsible for a 
great deal of apparent rascality. 

The ideal life is that condition which 
brings us the most happiness and 
spares others the most pain. 

There can be no tears of loss shed 
over those things which we have yet 
to find. 

%&* &?• ^* 

HOME. 

Around the sacred shrine of home 

We kneel in hope and prayer, 
And find amid its flowers of love 

Sweet consolation there. 
The trials and doubts of outside life 

Are quickly swept away, 
As winter snow soon disappears 

With sunshine in its way. 

The laugh of child-life brings us back 

To faith and peace again, 
And tired eyes turn toward the dawn 

Beyond the night of pain. 
A kiss from heaven seems to breathe 

Its benediction there, 
As mother leads with loving hand 

The bay's way to prayer. 
6g 



Stub Ends of 



LET us hope on. It is the last straw 
sometimes in the ocean of effort 
that points to an incoming tide. 

There are no thorns upon that pacific 
plant known as the flower of silence. 

He commits a double crime who 
tempts another to do wrong. 

There is no half-way status of pur- 
pose: we either try to succeed or lie 
down on the proposition. 

It is the mirage we sometimes see 
that keeps our hopes above the sands 
of fear. 

A sense of justice is the highest form 
of integrity in the character of man- 
kind. 

The world only understands the sur- 
face side of man and makes no effort 
to interpret appearance by intention. 

Loyalty is made up of two virtues, 
sincerity, as a basis, and honesty, as a 
component part. 

The endless restlessness of discontent 
but adds to burdens we are bound to 
bear. 

70 



Thought & Verse 



Too many of us take our seats in the 
orchestra circle of the world and wait 
for the curtain to rise upon the efforts 
of others. 

Initiative action is well thought out 
energy ballasted by brains. 

No regulation should be so iron-clad, 
but that it will bend under the pressure 
of good judgment. 

Responsibility is the only real condi- 
tion in business life that proves ca- 
pacity. 

To cast suspicion without the proper 
foundation of proof is indicative of the 
lowest form of dishonesty. 

^* t&* c<5* 



HOPE. 

Hope is the light of to-morrow's dawn, 

The sun of to-morrow's day; 

A budding flower that ne'er may 

bloom, 
Yet points to a faith-lit way, 
And lessens the weight of the cares 

we wear, 
And the burdens v/e bear to-day. 
7i 



Stub Ends of 



THE easiest way is not always the 
best way, and our efforts in the 
wrong direction do not accomplish 
much. 

We cannot undo yesterday, but its 
experience should, and will help us to 
do to-day. 

Faith is the relaxation of doubt, and 
contentment the recreation of unrest. 

The best reward of effort is a knowl- 
edge and capacity for another attempt. 

It is far better to sit still and think 
than to actively rush in the wrong di- 
rection. 

The generous fire of sympathy for 
those wounded will strike only on the 
surface of our own scars. 

Honesty of expression means only 
those things that we know to be true. 

The stock market of commodities not 
in our possession is always on the 
verge of a panic. 

Our infirmities sometimes lead us 
into paths of virtue that we never 
knew before. 

Deception is the sneak-thief of open 
dishonesty. 

72 



Thought & Verse 



Let us plead guilty ; throw ourselves 
on the mercy of the court and await 
the verdict. 

Misfortune may be productive of 
sympathy but it is seldom creative of 
love. 

C^V t^.*% \JHI 



COURAGE. 

Though our only friend be memory, 
And our only faith be fear, 
Though we see the darkness gathering, 
And the daylight disappear. 
Let us drink the cup of nectar, 
That a kindly fate has sent, 
While we walk the path of duty 
In the garden of content. 

Let us stand not in the shadow, 
Because the sun must set, 
Nor linger in the narrow 
Thorn-strewn highway of regret. 
The red rose of to-morrow 
Is but a bud to-day, 
And the darkening clouds of sorrow, 
Are but here to drift away. 
73 



Stub Ends of 



CHEERFULNESS and content- 
ment is the best evidence of 
God's existence in the nature of hu- 
manity. 

There are lots of alleged Christians 
thta will peep through the blinds on 
Sunday, but have not sufficient moral 
courage to open the front door. 

The little white bird of perfect faith 
makes its nest only amid the branches 
of absolute confidence. 

Over-estimated personalities are re- 
sponsible for the downfall of many 
under-estimated propositions. 

It is too often found more convenient 
to quote a maxim than to practice a 
principle. 

A man's gentility may be recognized 
to a large extent by what he does not 
do to attract attention to it. 

It should only be necessary to appeal 
to the intellect of intelligence in order 
to prove the worth of right. 

Never jump at a conclusion or opin- 
ion beyond your experience; approach 
it only with careful diplomatic dis- 
cretion. 

74 



Thought & Verse 



A MAN undaunted by the slurs of 
envy to-day will accept grace- 
fully the cheers of success to-morrow. 

The human heart is never entirely 
without tenderness as long as it is con- 
scious of regret. 

Much that man calls friendship is 
only a liability against which there is 
no asset to equalize. 

How many small characters stand 
before the incubator of human effort 
and anticipate the eggs' invalidity. 

As thorns indicate the presence of a 
rose so often does hate demonstrate 
the proximity of love. 

The ostentation of virtue merely 
proves (to some extent at least) the 
secretiveness of vice. 

The best companionship is frequent- 
ly our own, provided we can make it 
congenial to ourselves. 

Prejudice prophecies the failure of 
ibout as many enterprises as generosity 
anticipates to success. 

75 



Stub Ends of 

MUCH that we call hope to-day is 
too often only a veneer over 
the disappointment of to-morrow. 

Fatigue is the mother of rest, and 
sings a lullaby of sleep and resignation 
to honest effort. 

There is such a thing as our conceit 
carrying us so far above our fellow men 
that it is impossible to see anything 
but our side of them. 

Environment is the science that sur- 
rounds the circumstances of our lives, 
and moulds them into the opinions of 
experience. 

The official chains of prejudice fet- 
ters more ability than the charity of 
generosity and justice leads to free- 
dom. 

How much wrong is brought into 
existence by the erroneous and con- 
venient conception of right. 

It is about as difficult to legislate 
against the vagaries of human nature 
as to oppose the instincts of animal life. 
76 



Thought & Verse 



When a man finds it necessary to 
assert that he is a gentleman, there is 
generally sufficient ground for some= 
one else to protest that he is not one. 

Let us work cheerfully, confidently, 
and with success as our millenium, 
slavery, or enforced labor, never pro- 
duced anything but mechanical results. 

Disappointment is the sauce that 
adds zest to the menu of realization. 

It is often more the tone than the 
trend of an argument that makes it 
offensive. 

The open field of opportunity is fre- 
quently shadowed by the walls of envy 
and prejudice. 

10& t&& t&& 

TO-DAY. 

To-day is the life of the present, 
To-morrow the death of the past; 
To-day lights the highway of effort, 
To-morrow the fate-lines are cast. 
Tides that go out in the morning 
Forever roll on to the sea; 
To-day is the object before us, 
To-morrow whatever may be. 
77 



Stub Ends of 



THE avoidance of temptation re- 
quires greater effort and more 
strength of character than the require- 
ments that compel us not to yield to it. 

To suggest a remedy is always su- 
perior to the application of an argu- 
ment. 

Giving others advice with our own 
object in view is as dishonest as spend- 
ing another's money, or stealing an- 
other's happiness. 

We never really appreciate how 
bright the sun was until we realize 
how dark the clouds are. 

There is no real charity in giving 
something that we have no use for, or 
do not want to give. 

Proper discipline consists in positive 
instructions, based only on positive in- 
formation and substantiated experi- 
ence. 

Home life and home influence is the 
foundation and essential upon which 
society and civilization is constructed 
and Christian faith sustained. 

78 



Thought & Verse 



Men measure men largely by an in- 
dividual standard of what their per- 
sonal views have found most desirable 
in manhood. 

The soul and sympathy of mother- 
hood breathes in the life of all primary 
conditions of existence. 

tefr ta& i2fc 



THE LOSING SIDE. 

Stand from out the shadows there, 
Come out into the sun-way wide, 
No one cares for the under dog, 
No one cheers for the losing side. 
All the heads and hearts of men 
Bend to the shrine they call success, 
All the gods of fate attend, 
Those who do and frame their best. 

No one cares for the yelping cur 
Seeking a refuge from his kind, 
All to the champion now refer, 
None the wounds of failure bind. 
Stand from out the shadows there, 
Come out into the sun-way wide, 
No one cares for the under dog, 
No one cheers for the losing side. 
79 



Stub Ends of 



THOSE who depreciate the condi- 
tions of misfortune or inferior 
ability are cowards at heart, and dis- 
honest in character. 

Too many women regard love as an 
obligation or sense of duty and honor, 
and lose sight of the sentimental side 
of affection, which is really its sole sup- 
port. 

When fidelity is on the pay roll, lack 
of loyalty to a person, cause or corpora- 
tion is an evidence of tacit dishonesty. 

Liberal views even if founded upon 
erroneous impressions are preferable 
to the contracted ignorance of too con- 
servative caution. 

Economy and the honesty of living 
within the circle of our income should 
be a lesson learned precedent to the 
Lord's prayer. 

How many misguided fools are de- 
ceiving themselves, and insulting God, 
by the half-hearted belief that they can 
kneel their way into heaven. 

Lack of proper appreciation is one 
of the most certain signs of under-bred 
depreciation. 

80 



Thought & Verse 



No intelligent God ever yet an- 
swered a prayer that was prompted 
only by fear, or founded upon super- 
stition. 

Man needs a sympathetic compan- 
ion, and what he gets is the solution of 
what he wants. 

<<5* c^» c5* 

"REFLECTION." 

It is not always something we have 
known 

On which depends the strength of our 
belief, 

The full blown flowers from seeds that 
we have sown, 

Or the wild oats ripe and rich in au- 
tumn's sheaf. 

But greater far than these stand out 
alone, 

The faith and hope that lies deep un- 
derneath, 

Apart from something that has never 
been, 

Yet may find life and feature in the 
spring, 

Which winter fathers in the night of 
sorrow, 

That we may guard his foundling of 
to-morrow. 

81 



Stub Ends of 



MONEY is the servant of most of 
our laws, and poverty the slave 
of all of them. 

Many of us condemn right things 
that we think are wrong and know 
things are wrong that we parade as 
right. 

There is no rational reason to expect 
fidelity within the circle of confined 
confidence. 

What some men call conscience is 
only an undeveloped condition of fear. 

We must first get close to an idol 
before we can shatter it. 

Those who build their own crosses 
must learn to bear the burden of their 
weight. 

Love lives on the breath of devo- 
tion's applause and renews its life in 
the arms of appreciation. 

If the mother-in-law question is ever 
answered, she will have the last word. 

Let us go on building the castles of 
our hopes ; perhaps some day Fate may 
find a foundation for one of them. 
82 



Thought & Verse 



Genius is best viewed from a dis- 
tance; proximity to it means disillu- 
sion. 

The first lesson the logical woman 
learns is silence. 

Too many opinions drive reason 
from the midst of argument. 

Intelligence is frequently measured 
by the other fellow's ignorance rather 
than from our own knowledge. 

1&& t0™ t£* 

A TOAST. 
Here's to the men and women who 
work, 
To the thinking mind and muscles 
strong, 
Who look in the sun-lit face of hope, 
And greet each day with a song. 

And here's to the love we won or lost, 
And the kisses we gave or received. 

The shattered idol, the broken cross, 
Or the troth in which we believed. 

Here's to the flowers we gathered and 
pressed, 
And the wild rose left in the wood, 
Before we had learned to understand, 
Or hoped to be understood. 
83 



Stub Ends of 



LOVE lights may never go out, 
but they burn very low at times. 

In the little game of conjecture let 
us never include women. 

When a man finds it necessary to an- 
nounce himself, it is in the majority of 
cases necessary for him to do so. 

The first condition of gentility is laid 
upon environment, and the structure 
itself is almost entirely dependent up- 
on the foundation. 

Deceit is often merely an anaesthetic, 
if used exclusively to spare pain. 

Nothing develops selfishness in the 
human character more than an abso- 
lutely pacific condition. It is the tur- 
moil of life that turns the better side 
of ourselves to the sunlight. 

Many of us are color blind, save to 
the hues of our own flag. 

The power of original thought 
reigns supreme in an independent 
world of its own. 

Social cultivation is often most ably 
illustrated by what we do not do out of 
respect for it. 



Thought & Verse 



One of the best evidences of thor- 
ough intellectual worth is a complete 
and accurate knowledge of our own 
ability. 

Science gives little in exchange for 
what it takes from faith, except to 
offer something we do not know in re- 
turn for what we believed. 

The mental slave is one who for a 
price will barter views against his real 
belief. 

Faith is best proven by the doubts 
that its strength overcomes. 

It is easy to forgive the mistakes that 
men make for the sake of a principle 
and on the right side of human nature. 

The most beautiful hope in life's 
night time is the hand of love pointing 
with faith and encouragement towards 
the dawn of morning. 

i&& %&& i0& 

LOYALTY. 

Friends and devotion are brothers, 
And we will this condition find true, 

That he who is loyal to others, 
Will also prove loyal to you. 

85 



Stub Ends of 



INDIVIDUAL opinion and original- 
ity stand high and clear above 
popularity, and we all, mentally at 
least, bow before it. 

The high, gentle, generous acts of 
self-sacrificing love alone proves the 
divinity of devotion. 

Mental conviction is worthless un- 
less substantiated by physical action. 

Our education is never complete ; we 
can, however, live, learn and accom- 
plish to the end. 

Robust egotism is a good staff to 
lean upon, even though it supports no 
one but ourself. 

The next best evidence of large char- 
acter is that moral strength which en- 
ables us to recognize in others an 
ability we do not possess ourselves. 

Let us play the game for the game's 
sake to the end, win or lose. 

Self-control is the father of self-re- 
spect; and the foundation upon which 
self-reliance is constructed. 

Left to himself the average man is 
sincere ; it generally takes two or more 
to practice deception. 
86 



Thought & Verse 



Let us perform the first duty that 
presents itself to our conscience, and 
permit other obligations to take their 
turn. 

Orders given in an aggressive man- 
ner are, as a rule, observed in the same 
spirit. 

It is the death of hope, more than 
anything else, that makes us feel our 
age. 

Chance may send the wind, but ef- 
fort and preparation spread the sails 
to receive it. 

Wrong is on the surface of human 
character; but deep in the hearts of 
men lives a desire to do right. 

%&* <&* %2* 



MANHOOD. 

Looking toward the dawning day, 
Helping some fellow along. 
Showing the blind a sun-lit way, 
Singing a light-heart song, 
Speaking the truth to every man, 
Keeping our back to the West; 
Trusting that God will understand, 
And hoping for the best. 
8; 



Stub Ends of 

MANHOOD can never be quite 
unfettered until liberated from 
the views of other men. 

How much we find we did not know 
at all, while ascertaining what at last 
we learn. 

The resolute will oi strength scorns 
compromise with conditions that can- 
not be overcome. 

It is not well to bare the back of 
truth in order that a lie may be brand- 
ed there. 

Negligence and incapacity pays all 
the wages of competency and respon- 
sibility. 

Undigested ideas from undeveloped 
minds are often responsible for un- 
sound conditions. 

Unexpressed appreciation bears the 
same relation to effort as undemon- 
strated affection does to love. 

There is an extenuated circumstance 
connected with every fault that we re- 
gret. 



Thought & Verse 



ONE kind of diplomacy consists 
of the ability to detect weak 
places in human character and take ad- 
vantage of them. 

Religion is too often only the fear 
of a result, while Christianity is the 
practice of an example. 

How deep is the average smile of 
congratulation and good will? 

The God of nature teaches us to love 
our friends and those who love us, need 
we seek further for a more rational 
faith? 

Pessimism is a moral and mental dis- 
order than anticipates fear instead of 
hope, and hides in the darkness of its 
own shadow. 

Many a truth has died for want of 
faith and many a lie has lived without 
foundation for its life. 

Self-possession is the one accom- 
plishment that draws the line of rea- 
son between judgment and impulse. 

Only God and ourselves know some 
things to be right, but is that not 
enough? 

89 



Stub Ends of 



SUPERSTITION is a surface state 
of ignorance allowed to run un- 
restrained. 

Even animals do not love or respect 
those who place unnecessary burdens 
upon them. 

The cold morbid temperament of 
doubt lowers and chills all the environ- 
ments of hope. 

Real forgiveness consists of the will- 
ingness to bury a wrong in the grave of 
generosity and forgetfulness. 

Philosophers are those who can suc- 
cessfully help others to live in content- 
ment with what they possess. 

Duty is the hardest lesson we ever 
learn, and a foundation of earnest man- 
hood is the only basis upon which it 
will permanently stand. 

Financial crisis are too frequently 
due to the fact that economical policies 
have been allowed to pass into the 
hands of incompetent control. 

Nothing is absolutely our own, ex- 
cept those things which we have origi- 
nated and created ourselves. 
90 



Thought & Verse 



CHURCH building is a worthy oc- 
cupation, but home making is a 
sacred calling. 

It will prove easy to reconcile our- 
selves to the observance of those tilings 
which we no longer desire. 

Many fool theories are frequently 
proven by their own apparent absur- 
dity. 

Sometimes the loss of yesterday 
proves to be to-day's consolation and 
to-morrow's gain. 

Can we not accomplish something 
that is worthy of imitation, surely we 
have borrowed enough from others. 

The blinds are closed on the sunny 
side of every home as soon as conten- 
tion enters the front door. 

Nothing is more characteristic of a 
man's intelligence, than his considerate 
attitude in the face of ignorance. 

Heredity is insufficient to combat the 
influence of undesirable envcronment. 

The greatest gifts of nature consist 
of those things which we fail to under- 
stand. 

9i 



Stub Ends of 



REPENTANCE is good, but the 
moral strength that precludes 
the necessity of it is far better. 

Just as soon as we lose interest in an 
undertaking, the principle involved is 
immediately affected. 

Diplomacy is a pleasant apology for 
sincerity, yet one is an accomplishment 
and the other a virtue. 

Ignorance always has, and doubtless 
ever will, sneer at things it fails to 
comprehend. 

The appreciation of one act well per- 
formed, is the best incentive for an- 
other effort. 

We alone can keep the true record 
of our thoughts and are exclusively re- 
sponsible for their character. 

Ideas not thoroughly in conformance 
with our own views, undergo a slow 
process of digestion before assimila- 
tion. 

Let us learn to avoid unhappiness 
through our refusal to anticipate un- 
pleasant possibilities. 

Q2 



Thought & Verse 



AN ounce of personal enthusiasm 
in business is worth a pound of 
enforced effort. 

Policy frequently consists only of 
legal selfishness, with a tacit spirit of 
dishonesty about it. 

Knowledge may be power, but not 
always happiness, as it is often better 
not to know some things. 

The greatest incentive for the pro- 
gress of intelligence is our respect for 
the existence of knowledge. 

System consists not only of doing 
things neatly, but also in knowing how 
to save the wages of incompetency. 

Home should be above criticism, and 
never is really home unless it is so. 

There is much gratification in play- 
ing a part well, provided we may, 
without disappointment, anticipate ap- 
plause and appreciation for our efforts. 

We are only rich by comparison with 
those who appear to us poor. 

Civility costs nothing to observe, yet 
frequently proves expensive to neglect. 
93 



Stub Ends of 



OF all things that are sold over 
the counter of life happiness 
brings the highest price. 

No man is absolutely loyal to any in- 
terest that he does not fear to lose by 
neglect. 

It is dangerous to be over-confident 
in any branch of undertaking, without 
regard to our experience or knowledge 
on the subject. 

Economical policies are dangerous 
instruments in the hands of those not 
well versed in the profits of carefully 
directed expenditure. 

The present is all-important, yester- 
day is dead, and tomorrow may never 
be born. 

One clear cut evidence of intelli- 
gence is the ability to gracefully admit 
that we were in the wrong. 

Many of us are too ready to judge by 
report, and by so doing often jump to 
unjust and erroneous conclusions. 

Sincerity is one of the leading ma- 
terials that constitute the statue of 
perfect manhood. 

94 



Thought & Verse 

WE should always endeavor to 
never place the emphasis of 
obligation upon a favor. 

It is hard for some of us to pay in- 
terest on the notes of indiscretion after 
they have been outlawed, save by a 
sense of moral obligation. 

A contemptible feature of weakness 
is that which permits us to strike an 
enemy through the heart of a friend. 

Nothing will prove to be so bad to- 
morrow as it seems to be to-day. 

It is not only the memory of the past 
that holds us to life, but the hope that 
the future may bury its recollection. 

Cleanliness for its own sake is a 
virtue and an indication of the highest 
form of self-respect. 

Only small men stand within the 
shadows of a day which their earnest 
efforts might have dispelled. 

We often confess faults to ourselves 
that the proper amount of moral cour- 
age prohibits our admitting to others. 

The last and longest love of a wom- 
an's life is always the ideal affection 
that she has either realized or lost. 
95 



Stub Ends of 



TOO many of us grieve after it is 
too late to do so, and so many 
of us rejoice before it is time 

Love for child-life increases with 
our age, as the longing for flowers 
lives in a desert life. 

Human nature is pushing forward 
toward its millenium, and is retarded 
at present more by the conceit that in- 
fluences us than by anything else. 

If every one of us would help one 
person out of the shadows and into 
the sunshine of life there would be no 
misery in the world. 

Some men term philosophy that con- 
dition which proves discretion to be a 
necessity and resignation a virtue. 

It is cowardly to demand or expect 
from some one else that which we are 
unable to accomplish ourselves. 

We are all subject to environment 
and live under its direct influence for 
either good or evil. 

The stern truths of experience 
should be gracefully received as testi- 
monials of their own value. 
90 



Thought & Verse 



Love is the primary state of un- 
selfishness and the secondary condition 
of self-sacrifice. 

Some of us never look for what we 
want until it is lost. 

Birth is the foundation upon which 
we build the structure which environ- 
ment, opportunity and effort creates. 

A man never loves the home of con- 
tention, even though his own faults 
contribute to that condition. 

t^» t&i t&* 

IT IS NOT MANLY. 

It is not manly to parade success 

For failure fathers every well tried 

plan, 
'Tis in the faltering darkness of dis- 
tress 
We best the touch of kindness under- 
stand. 
It is not manly to bemean a power 
We cannot in our weakness claim as 

ours, 
And honesty does not permit an end 
Presuming on the friendship of a 
friend. 

97 



Stub Ends of 



REPENTANCE is good, but the 
moral strength that precludes 
the necessity of it is far better. 

Just as soon as we lose interest in an 
undertaking, the principle involved is 
immediately affected. 

Diplomacy is a pleasant apology for 
sincerity, yet one is an accomplishment 
and the other a virtue. 

Ignorance always has, and doubtless 
ever will, sneer at things it fails to 
comprehend. 

The appreciation of one act well per- 
formed, is the best incentive for an- 
other effort. 

We alone can keep the true record 
of our thoughts and are exclusively re- 
sponsible for their character. 

Ideas not thoroughly in conformance 
with our own views, undergo a slow 
process of digestion before assimila- 
tion. 

Let us learn to avoid unhappiness 
through our refusal to anticipate un- 
pleasant possibilities. 
92 



Thought & Verse 



AN ounce of personal enthusiasm 
in business is worth a pound of 
enforced effort. 

Policy frequently consists only of 
legal selfishness, with a tacit spirit of 
dishonesty about it. 

Knowledge may be power, but not 
always happiness, as it is often better 
not to know some things. 

The greatest incentive for the pro- 
gress of intelligence is our respect for 
the existence of knowledge. 

System consists not only of doing 
things neatly, but also in knowing how 
to save the wages of incompetency. 

Home should be above criticism, and 
never is really home unless it is so. 

There is much gratification in play- 
ing a part well, provided we may, 
without disappointment, anticipate ap- 
plause and appreciation for our efforts. 

We are only rich by comparison with 
those who appear to us poor. 

Civility costs nothing to observe, yet 
frequently proves expensive to neglect. 
93 



Stub Ends of 

OF ail things that are sold over 
the counter of life happiness 
brings the highest price. 

No man is absolutely loyal to any in- 
terest that he does not fear to lose by 
neglect. 

It is dangerous to be over-confident 
in any branch of undertaking, without 
regard to our experience or knowledge 
on the subject. 

Economical policies are dangerous 
instruments in the hands of those not 
well versed in the profits of carefully 
directed expenditure. 

The present is all-important, yester- 
day is dead, and tomorrow may never 
be born. 

One clear cut evidence of intelli- 
gence is the ability to gracefully admit 
that we were in the wrong. 

Many of us are too ready to judge by 
report, and by so doing often jump to 
unjust and erroneous conclusions. 

Sincerity is one of the leading ma- 
terials that constitute the statue of 
perfect manhood. 

94 



Thought & Verse 

WE should always endeavor to 
never place the emphasis of 
obligation upon a favor. 

It is hard for some of us to pay in- 
terest on the notes of indiscretion after 
they have been outlawed, save by a 
sense of moral obligation. 

A contemptible feature of weakness 
is that which permits us to strike an 
enemy through the heart of a friend. 

Nothing will prove to be so bad to- 
morrow as it seems to be to-day. 

It is not only the memory of the past 
that holds us to life, but the hope that 
the future may bury its recollection. 

Cleanliness for its own sake is a 
virtue and an indication of the highest 
form of self-respect. 

Only small men stand within the 
shadows of a day which their earnest 
efforts might have dispelled. 

We often confess faults to ourselves 
that the proper amount of moral cour- 
age prohibits our admitting to others. 

The last and longest love of a wom- 
an's life is always the ideal affection 
that she has either realized or lost. 
95 



Stub Ends of 



TOO many of us grieve after it is 
too late to do so, and so many 
of us rejoice before it is time 

Love for child-life increases with 
our age, as the longing for flowers 
lives in a desert life. 

Human nature is pushing forward 
toward its millenium, and is retarded 
at present more by the conceit that in- 
fluences us than by anything else. 

If every one of us would help one 
person out of the shadows and into 
the sunshine of life there would be no 
misery in the world. 

Some men term philosophy that con- 
dition which proves discretion to be a 
necessity and resignation a virtue. 

It is cowardly to demand or expect 
from some one else that which we are 
unable to accomplish ourselves. 

We are all subject to environment 
and live under its direct influence for 
either good or evil. 

The stern truths of experience 
should be gracefully received as testi- 
monials of their own value. 
90 



Thought & Verse 



Love is the primary state of un- 
selfishness and the secondary condition 
of self-sacrifice. 

Some of us never look for what we 
want until it is lost. 

Birth is the foundation upon which 
we build the structure which environ- 
ment, opportunity and effort creates. 

A man never loves the home of con- 
tention, even though his own faults 
contribute to that condition. 

fc^w K&& <(?* 

IT IS NOT MANLY. 

It is not manly to parade success 

For failure fathers every well tried 

plan, 
'Tis in the faltering darkness of dis- 
tress 
We best the touch of kindness under- 
stand. 
It is not manly to bemean a power 
We cannot in our weakness claim as 

ours, 
And honesty does not permit an end 
Presuming on the friendship of a 
friend. 

97 



Stub Ends of 



HONESTY is the single quality 
that exceeds the value of per- 
sonality in business life. 

Genius is an idea inspired by energy 
and nursed by a persistent effort into 
accomplishment. 

The open evidence of jealousy is a 
tacit admission of inferiority. 

It is not fair to ourselves or to 
others, to crucify a conviction of what 
we know to be right upon the cross of 
what we fear to be wrong. 

Reasonable criticism is a part of 
business philanthropy. 

Ignorance was never known to 
bring in a verdict inconsistent with its 
intelligence. 

Divinity is everything and anything 
that brings happiness in the place of 
where sorrow was before. 

Some people mistake pity for con- 
sideration; it is not manly to degrade 
a fool. 

The weight of responsibility de- 
velops the muscles of endeavor. 



Thought & Verse 



ILL nature is the father of those hard 
lines that form under the once 
soft eyes of gentleness and love. 

The generosity of self sacrifice is the 
only sentiment worth consideration 
after all. 

It is sometimes better not to know 
what others fear you, do. 

As drops of water work their way 
through stone, so long continued effort 
finds its goal. 

An unfilled promise is but little bet- 
ter than a premeditated lie, with the 
taint of dishonesty about it. 

We are frequently asked to follow 
advice that has never reached its own 
destination. 

The performance of right is merely 
a recognition of common sense. 

Real love, after all, is nothing much 
but giving away the crust that we hun- 
ger for ourselves. 

Concurrence in the views of others 
is seldom governed by unbiased opin- 
ion, and one cannot add strength to 
another's weakness by endorsing it. 
99 



^_^ Stub Ends of 

THERE may be nothing in it after 
all, but we never know until the 
shell is opened and found empty. 

How often prejudice cheats us out 
of the rights of reason, investigation 
and justice ! 

Some men's definition of friendship 
consists merely of a tool with which 
imposition can be safely practiced. 

It is easier to forgive a pretty woman 
for doing wrong than to reconcile 
one's self to an uglv one for being so. 

The humanity of a lie is most ably 
illustrated when used as a substitute 
for a painful truth. 

It requires extraordinary and uncon- 
scious ability to accept good advice 
gracefully and utilize it without preju- 
dice. 

Sentiment softens some natures, 
hurts others, and causes doubt to exist 
in the hearts of all. 

One form of genius is that creative 
talent which finds upon the shore of 
thought two ideas where only one 
lived before. 

ioo 



Thought & Verse 



MANY apparent virtues are but 
vices masked by the motives 
that produced them. 

Every man of individual thought 
and expression must be prepared to 
receive the scorn that comes with the 
curse of egotism. 

The ordinary ways of friendship too 
often lie only in the lighted places of 
the lives of those for whom it is ex- 
pressed. 

Play the manly role in all emergen- 
cies of life, even if you do not feel 
the part. 

Our value in any cause is lost as 
soon as an earnest interest and en- 
thusiasm is absent from it. 

A man always loses respect for him- 
self before others suspect his lack of 
worth or integrity. 

Sometimes the hearts of children in 
the breasts of men lead great minds 
into the paths of simplicity and peace, 
and point out purer, better ways of 
life than they have ever known. 
101 



Stub Ends of 



IN order to spare ourselves humili- 
ation, it is best to restrict ambi- 
tion within the circle of our conscious 
strength. 

When a woman loses a man's affec- 
tion on account of having misplaced 
it, she generally looks in the wrong 
direction to recover it. 

Men who permit their sentimental 
sensibility to control them in the gar- 
den of love should for their own happi- 
ness content themselves with the 
flower of friendship. 

Let all your manly sympathies out 
to the simple, unconscious fool who 
revels in the knowledge that he does 
not possess. 

The world is often old and senile in 
its reason when young inquiring minds 
dare to ask a question. 

Self reliance is not conceit, but its 
surface appearance is closely related 
to it. 

It is only through the realization of 
some things that we find out we did 
not really want them after all. 
102 



Thought & Verse 



The commodity of justice is a high 
priced luxury which few, through the 
greater claim of necessity, can afford 
to command. 

A consciousness of love and affec- 
tion makes plain the path where duty 
treads. 

It is only the weak that make vows ; 
strength offers its illustration through 
effort. 

i^rt t^* tc& 

"THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN." 

Beyond the dearest, sweetest dreams 
of love, 
Apart from every passion and desire, 
And separate from any thought or 
strife, 
That may have held us in its tor- 
tuous fire, 
There comes a memory sacred as the 
day, 
"When we repented for our darkest 
sin, 
That holds us fearful, trembling in its 
sway, 
The recognition of what might have 
been. 

103 



Stub Ends of 



GOOD grows rapidly upon the fer- 
tile soil of evil, and out of 
wrong is often born the offspring of 
right. 

Where is the line of reason drawn 
between the age of discretion and the 
hour of decay? 

We never know who our real friends 
are until the lies of our enemies are 
denied by them. 

Appreciation is the lubricator on 
which the wheels of effort turn. 

Reason is the life of all that is new 
and the youth of all that is old. 

It is more blessed to render an idea 
than to receive a suggestion. 

Real worth requires no endorse- 
ment as it is only genuine when known 
to be so. 

To observe, without question, in- 
structions we believe to be wrong is 
rank insubordination and deliberate 
disloyalty. 

Envy is the weapon that ignorance 
directs against intelligence and suc- 
cess. 

104 



Thought & Verse 



LOVE'S AWAKENING. 

A bud from which no petals yet have 
fallen, 
The rose of youth just opening on its 
stem; 
The silver voice of love's ambition 
calling, 
A strange awakening in the hearts 
of men. 
Free from every fear of future know- 
ing, 
Breathing but the sunshine of to-day, 
Dreading not the harvest of the sowing, 
Seeing but the clear and faith-kissed 
way. 

Feeling only life's love just beginning, 
Hearing but the silver notes of truth, 
Every heart-beat some new fancy 
bringing 
Consummation to the hopes of youth. 
A bud from which no petals yet have 
( fallen, 

The rose of youth just opening on its 
stem; 
The silver voice of love's ambition 
calling 
A strange awakening in the hearts 
of men. 

105 



Stub Ends of 



ENDEAVOR. 
"I will try to do better to-morrow 
Than I have done to-day," 
Said a child with sweet intention, 
As he knelt in tears to pray. 
God grant in the night of failure 
We may all in earnest say, 
"I will try and do better to-morrow 
Than I have done to-day." 
"AS THE TREES LIVE." 
As the trees grow, so lives perfect 
love, 
Stronger and firmer each succeeding 
day, 
'Tis only passion flowers, that bloom 
inconstantly, 
And after sunshine dies, sigh and 
fade away. 
As the trees bloom, evergreen in hope, 
So doth love its heart-bound offering 
bring, 
And sweetly nourished by the soil of 
faith, 
Live forever in eternal spring. 
As the trees live, so lives pure affec- 
tion, 
Yielding all its joy, sharing all its 
sorrow, 
Holding firm the line of this day's love 
To measure the devotion of to- 
morrow. 106 



Thought & Verse 



THE MOTHER-QUEEN. 
Within the garden of our best intents, 
One everlasting love flower blooms 

supreme, 
Beyond all future dread, or past re- 
grets, 
Around the Shrine that guards our 

Mother-Queen. 
No shadow falls across the halls of 

home, 
Unless occasioned by her absence 

there. 
No sweeter music than the voice we 

love, 
Teaching child-life in the ways of 

prayer. 
She who in spring-life lead our falter- 
ing steps, 
Into the sun-light and amid the flowers, 
Yet with her gray hair blowing in the 

wind, 
Beside us in the tempest, shares the 

danger-hour. 
And in the winter of our doubt and 

pain 
Leads us with faith towards the spring 

again, 
So let us kneel in loving homage there, 
Beside the Shrine of Mother, Home 

and Prayer. 107 






' %lJ r :\kjr*' 










& 

















■'. 




LIBRARY 




